Historicizing Post Discourses

Author : Tanya Ann Kennedy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438464794

Get Book

Historicizing Post-Discourses by Tanya Ann Kennedy Pdf

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States. Historicizing Post-Discourses explores how postfeminism and postracialism intersect in dominant narratives of triumphalism, white male crisis, neoliberal and colonial feminism, and multiculturalism to perpetuate systemic injustice in America. By examining various locations within popular culture, including television shows such as Mad Men and The Wire; books such as The Help and Lean In; as well as Hollywood films, fan forums, political blogs, and presidential speeches, Tanya Ann Kennedy demonstrates the dominance of postfeminism and postracialism in US culture. In addition, she shows how post-discourses create affective communities through their engineering of the history of both race and gender justice. Tanya Ann Kennedy is Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Maine at Farmington and the author of “Keeping Up Her Geography”: Women’s Writing and Geocultural Space in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture.

Author : Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479824380

Get Book

Re-Imagining Black Women by Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd Pdf

WINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women From Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black women—and Blackness more broadly—are understood in our political imagination and often become the subjects of public controversy. Drawing on politics, popular culture, psychoanalysis, and more, Alexander-Floyd examines our conflicting ideas, opinions, and narratives about Black women, showing how they are equally revered and reviled as an embodiment of good and evil, cast either as victims or villains, citizens or outsiders. Ultimately, Alexander-Floyd showcases the complex experiences of Black women as political subjects. At a time of extreme racial tension, Re-Imagining Black Women provides insight into the parts that Black women play, and are expected to play, in politics and popular culture.

Author : Sarah Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350120310

Get Book

Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film by Sarah Hill Pdf

In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema's engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill's Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film provides the first book-length study of how young femininity has been constructed, both in films like the St. Trinians franchise and by critically acclaimed directors like Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley and Lone Scherfig. Hill offers new ways to understand how postfeminism informs British cinema and how it is adapted to fit its specific geographical context. By interrogating UK cinema through this lens, Hill paints a diverse and distinctive portrait of modern femininity and consolidates the important academic links between film, feminist media and girlhood studies.

Author : Meghan Gilbert-Hickey,Miranda A. Green-Barteet
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496833839

Get Book

Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction by Meghan Gilbert-Hickey,Miranda A. Green-Barteet Pdf

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Edited Book Award Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe—and whose experiences demonstrate—that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others. Contributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.

Author : Liam Kennedy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474458894

Get Book

Trump's America by Liam Kennedy Pdf

Donald J. Trump's presidency has delivered a seismic shock to the American political system, its public sphere, and to our political culture worldwide.

Author : Tanya Ann Kennedy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438495477

Get Book

Reclaiming Time by Tanya Ann Kennedy Pdf

The post-2016 election era in the United States is commonly presumed to be an era of crisis. Reclaiming Time argues that the narratives used to make this crisis a meaningful national story (e.g., Hillbilly Elegy, Strangers in Their Own Land) are not only gendered and racialized but also give a thin account of time, one so superficial as to make the future unimaginable. Examining the work of feminist theorists, performance artists, writers, and activists—from Octavia Butler and Jesmyn Ward to the Combahee River Collective and Congresswoman Maxine Waters—Tanya Ann Kennedy shows how their work disturbs dominant temporal frames; rearticulates the relations between past, present, and future; and offers models for "doing" the future as reparation. Reclaiming Time thus builds on while also critiquing feminist literary critical practices of reparative reading. Kennedy further aligns the method of reparative reading with the theories and aims of reparative justice, making the case for more fully engaging with social movement activism.

Author : Michele White,Diane Negra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000555813

Get Book

Anti-Feminisms in Media Culture by Michele White,Diane Negra Pdf

This important and timely collection examines the troubling proliferation of anti-feminist language and concepts in contemporary media culture. Edited by Michele White and Diane Negra, these curated essays offer a critical means of considering how contemporary media, politics, and digital culture function, especially in relation to how they simultaneously construct and displace feminist politics, women’s bodies, and the rights of women and other disenfranchised subjects. The collection explores the simplification and disparagement of feminist histories and ongoing feminist engagements, the consolidation of all feminisms into a static and rigid structure, and tactics that are designed to disparage women and feminists as a means of further displacing disenfranchised people’s identities and rights. The book also highlights how it is becoming more imperative to consider how anti-feminisms, including hostilities towards feminist activism and theories, are amplified in times of political and social unrest and used to instigate violence against women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. A must-read for students and scholars of media, culture and communication studies, gender studies, and critical race studies with an interest in feminist media studies.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1746 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031362538

Get Book

The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Author : Delphine Letort,Benaouda Lebdai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319770819

Get Book

Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Films by Delphine Letort,Benaouda Lebdai Pdf

This collective book offers new insight on the genres of biography and autobiography by examining the singular path of those deemed to be ‘outsiders’, such as Winnie Mandela, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X and Harvey Milk. Its specific focus on these female leaders and civil rights activists, who refused to be constrained by gender, race and class, shifts attention away from the great men of history and places it solely on those who have transformed their personal lives into a fight for collective goals. With an interdisciplinary approach that looks at literature, cinema and cultural studies, Women Activists and Civil Rights Leaders in Auto/Biographical Literature and Cinema argues that life writing is a key source of artistic creativity and activism which enables us to take a fresh look at history.

Author : Nicholas Baer,Maggie Hennefeld,Laura Horak,Gunnar Iversen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813599601

Get Book

Unwatchable by Nicholas Baer,Maggie Hennefeld,Laura Horak,Gunnar Iversen Pdf

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible? With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.

Author : Jennifer Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471930

Get Book

The New Feminist Literary Studies by Jennifer Cooke Pdf

Presents essays by feminists of theory and literature that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today.

Author : Tanya Ann Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438495455

Get Book

Reclaiming Time by Tanya Ann Kennedy Pdf

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

Author : Stefanie C. Boulila
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786605597

Get Book

Race in Post-racial Europe by Stefanie C. Boulila Pdf

How can we make sense of race in Europe? In public discourse, race is understood as an outdated concept and as a reminiscence of a past that has been overcome. Drawing on intersectional feminist theory and a rich selection of examples from political and cultural discourse, Race in Post-Racial Europe provides a unique insight into how gender and racial inequalities are maintained through the claim of being beyond them.

Author : Peter C. Herman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791485682

Get Book

Historicizing Theory by Peter C. Herman Pdf

Historicizing Theory provides the first serious examination of contemporary theory in relation to the various twentieth-century historical and political contexts out of which it emerged. Theory—a broad category that is often used to encompass theoretical approaches as varied as deconstruction, New Historicism, and postcolonialism—has often been derided as a mere "relic" of the 1960s. In order to move beyond such a simplistic assessment, the essays in this volume examine such important figures as Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War II, the Holocaust, the Algerian civil war, and the canon wars of the 1980s. In bringing us face-to-face with the history of theory, Historicizing Theory recuperates history for theory and asks us to confront some of the central issues and problems in literary studies today.

Author : Keffrelyn D. Brown
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774120

Get Book

After the "At-Risk" Label by Keffrelyn D. Brown Pdf

This book examines how the use of the “at-risk” category and label creates problems for students and teachers. Drawing from research across various education sites, the author illustrates how educators recognize the label’s potential to redress issues of equity, but warns that it can also stigmatize the students so labeled. Brown explores how the labeling and subsequent practices by teachers and schools actually affect students, such as classifying many individuals as deficient. The text provides a historical overview, discusses the role of federal education policy and teaching, and includes tools to help readers acquire more complex, critical understandings of risk in educational practice. After the “At-Risk” Label not only challenges the education community to reorient itself to a more equitable discourse, it provides a framework for changing the structural conditions of schooling to better serve all students. Book Features: Offers a critical appraisal of how schools, policy, and teachers may be complicit in exacerbating conditions that lead to risk. Shows how race and class biases might be manifested in the “at-risk” identification process.Outlines a framework for making sense of, and acting in response to, risk that attends to both the individual and the institution. Provides a set of key questions, terms, and a list of extended activities in each chapter. “In this book, Keffrelyn Brown takes the common notion of ‘at-risk’ and turns it on its head. It is imperative that people who deal with children and teens grapple with the centrality of her notions. This is a must read!” —Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin–Madison “In this important and timely book, Keffrelyn Brown provides a much-needed basis for radically rethinking whether risk can be part of a critical social justice project in education.” —David Gillborn, University of Birmingham, UK “This book represents an audaciously genuine call to know more about, to see more in, and do more for students who have somehow amassed the label ‘at-risk!’” —H. Richard Milner IV, University of Pittsburgh